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President Obama Relents on Secret Drone Memo

Rolfe Winkler and Julian Barnes discuss President Obama's move to let some lawmakers see memos related to targeting killings of American terror suspects in other countries, and Michael Casey looks at today's stocks to watch.

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... the ... good morning welcome to the new sub I'm Rolfe Winkler ... how does President Obama justify the targeted killings of American terror suspects abroad ... a small group of lawmakers hope to finally get an answer to that controversial question ... on the eve of the battle to confirm his pick for America's next EIA chief President Obama agreed Wednesday to a small group of lawmakers ... look at a long sought classified Justice Department legal opinion explaining the policy ... Wall Street Journal's ... Pentagon correspondent Julian Barnes has details doing good morning ... the twenty oh okay so ... it did take this back first of all there's one targeted killing in particular that ... I needed it is especially controversial for the botanist ration which is ... it's a September twenty eleven strike ... in Yemen and I'm so out ... of the ... key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ... on the other Akio an American citizen was born in America and he went become only durable cotton Arabian Peninsula became one of the most ... effective propagandists of for for al Qaeda around the world um and done ... to ... the Obama administration put him on a target list in September twenty eleven ... going to ... have gone to see I am going to ... go into a coma ... ok and justification for this action eased between this legal opinion now to give us a sense perhaps sensitivity is ... a talk about the conditions under which ... the small group who are they are going to be allowed to view the stock ... this is ... extremely close hold extremely tight hold them for letting the members of the ... intelligence committee ... see them there's no it's not even clear that those who really needs to the center will be allowed to see adjusts the senators themselves ... now members of the Judiciary Committee in the armed services Committee ... all of them pushing up for access to this ... um that this Justice Department memo there are at least right away not conceded only that the senators who are ... conducting the hearing on now ... on Mr. read ... this story ... it does seem that they may be allowed to have ... and he ... he sounds like but where were nuts Russ no when argue about that yet again and that's important because you know of it is the getting these legal experts were going to be able to advise the centers on what to press and what they can press of foreign hearing today or ... or for more permission later on ... check your check yourself ... taller then snapping photos ... now what why more ... president Obama releases to the public its controversial be what specifically do we think is in that document ... that is ... so sensitive ... well ... the Obama missed ration is been frustrated because they think that for the most part the legal justifications article there in the indictment against a straw locking in the speeches ... Mr Brennan himself has given Mr holder is given the ... Attorney General Eric holder ... um it laid out that if their capture his non option if your key leader of al Qaeda which is a unit at war with the United States and you can be targeted by ... this EIA or or or or the military ... aam and so we think that the broad justification sorry after ... he won this race is also ... no police similar memos from that of Bush administration soon after they took office about ... on harsh interrogation methods so critics say it's hypocritical for them to hold back their own memos on controversial subjects occasionally last question this is become a flashpoint in the nomination of John Brennan the White House's kitchen chair isn't cheap food they want to meet C I a director ... why didn't pursue an encoded hold up that nomination ... well that's why they're releasing it to the ... intelligence committee on key Democratic senator suggested they might even filibuster of Mr. Brennan order forces Memo to come out and to the Obama missed ration dug in its heels in court cases ... up and one ought not to release this but now the threat of a filibuster ... aam has for them to lease it now the White House clearly thinks that this will be enough ... to allow Mr. Brennan's on ... nomination to prestigious up will see in the hours to come to that ... great ... Jillian thank you so much for joining us ... and for those hearings you can watch them on at two thirty pm this afternoon ... moving over markets the latest jobless claims data are in their down five thousand ... Michael Casey joins us Michael ... then all that's that's one bit of news today plants is a lot going on to the ACCC is uncertain as the northern what this is actually a billion is the time for him to happen since ... the wheeling and Mario drug use in prison in European Central Bank ... is now taking questions ... we had the ECB ... stands pat on it to shreds in a big surprise there know who the real question in people's minds is ... will he walk will say about the strength of the euro it's an incredible run up and you know cos is ... causing all sorts of ... banks really amount to one political leaders wrapped around her is itself ... a blow to competitiveness is ... a ... very unlikely that he would Wade into this for us because ... Henning DCP intimates and Chandler off ... a lot of tea ... to deal with currency issues it's a very sensitive issue needs to have to answer questions that we should assume a decent ... time ... did Jobless claims were out they they would element three sixty six is the number that which is higher than what was expected the sixty ... say in a manner that they wouldn't be ... real to the couple without ... probably more just and we we had parked in the numbers out in part to numbers are important because it would exit the long-term growth potential of having been becoming a kind in ... choppy well ... to dissent ... were down two percent is non from five to the closely watched by economists ... this was kind in the fourth quarter time footage of a surprise contraction ... and also it ... unit level costs dropped four point five percent or Utah here ... is a slowing economy as we know we had that recorded the whole of ... perhaps one off factors involved with the fiscal cliff concerns been one of ... the people not really put me like a force to work to companies with Idol Edward period of slower growth tends to drive them to be the thing is is is is this a trend that would be of ... concern that the word ... that of course this petition inflationary concerns in having that level cost rises so does the can ... it's a one off now let's jump over to three stock steer was getting we have to ... instill a nice is this is a moving into two innings of this ignorant interested and ... I think they can now shop Lehigh ... results of forty nine percent increase in earnings ... on strong growth in revenues because the health insurer that plane does ... this all units Hazy helped in front of just very very well that got many kids supplement operations now to bring in all the people concerned about ... the new mini kit also the growing divide that by ... the time that the ... studies ... were needed I do not edit Ikea ... I'm sharply lower results ... on its legs and others resent laws and that really caught us answer it of course it did the token that David Olson downgraded the Texas The camcorders in all the electronic and the Sunny produces the biggest volume eleven course being ... in a hat smartphones into taking away the ... the the out of that they use to have the cameras and lots of Let's offers the best articles or that Japan's export the lemon ... and and the degree to which ... the Japanese yen can fall far enough to help a couple of sunny is the question the question ... last lasting at least a link in a mainly to see value in the share price is done pretty well says that its earnings in its being very high ... one of the euro the street to the big social media companies that we want the place was because we miss ... the big ones ... what did was into thinking is that some ... the series comes from from recruitment ... services ... has a unit is a pickup in the jobs market ... that sixty seven defeats Wellington's addition to see whether the justify knees high that ... this is why the US is the capital side ... maybe is a bit of a benchmark for non performance in the ... you can toss it is interesting that linked in its business isn't so much effort as it is selling its value this Mr. recruiters who won its fight to siphon water right than just on the positive ... ok what can I thank so much for joining us special ... the big weekend deal making continues now seems there'll be a new Chinese in the skies that's next ... live coverage of President Obama stated Union address that works well for the forty nine pm ... WSJ line ... welcome back to the New Saab some breaking news in the news or in the European Central Bank agreed to a deal to ease Ireland's debt burden in a major boost to Dublin's hopes ... of emerging from an international bailout program ... will bring you more details on that story as they emerge ... moving over Upbeat weekend deal making continues now seems to be a new giant in the sky is executives at American Airlines and US Airways are hashing out the last major details of a merger agreement ... with American out of bankruptcy protection ... AP reporter Mike Spector has are still ... on he wanted a bite they so much for joining us today ... okay so this leave us with with four major airlines ride United Continental Delta ... Southwest in America were ... able to them that were taken respected why why the consolidation ... Romney with integrated added situation for year where did that over at TPM NLY I'm ... no at refreshing here and there are high fuel prices ... and he noted that many talented at big pension burden I River caught them especially at the cycle ... where you can tell ... northwest ... United they all end up in bankruptcy ... restructuring of bankrupt a and and ... they're finding merger partner after work ... the ... deferred wrinkle here that ... tell us and ... I'm actually it probably going to get a merger with US Airways well it though and bankrupt and that the pumping an American ... didn't really wanna do but that their creditors are buried his head and ... they are today ... I've ... been whittled down I didn't want to ... be very important ... now fewer competitors ... probably means higher prices for ... fliers correct ... yet that that I'm ... well they should have allowed the airline to raids by the great debate over the years now motivation adopted a bit ... I have the right to our I believe actually a bit lower ... but you know on the flip side I get a robots frequent ire program many peeps I'm big on the fly by ... I'm thinking about was that the ... singing ... the praises ... of the flying experience ... especially ... in the U S that often top and ... aam but you are still attending something ... just to share some details with our viewers ... to deal with to be clear create the world's largest carrier ... market cap would be over ten billion dollars ... or so and the merger would yield about one point two billion in additional revenues as we mentioned higher airfares ... what are the road blocks from here for this to get completed Mike ... well I had to be that cleared by the U S bankruptcy judge everything American ... creditors ... about it and that that go under the anti trust review although ... American and US Airways have complimentary route you overlapping route though most analysts believe that all that that actually ... and you know I mean the board will have to look at the same look ... add to that chairman chief executive Tom Horton and at Kmart the American Airlines parent ... that along with the dead even in the top spot to the editor of The never wanted the that that that he resign ... Horton finally did what all the airline to put them in the bankruptcy ... in US Airways would immediately there ... I am for merger ... and he now keeps you can probably lose his job ... the guilt ... discussions about an unexpected chairman role ... probably due for a limited amount of time ... I've said Doug Parker US Airways jet was likely the piano I felt ... that I was shaping up ... and the third and fourth in the discussions and the creditor pressure and ... did not done yet AMR's board to decide they don't wanna do that ... I can be another week or two ... a lot of momentum in serious discussions ... ok my can just be clear ... is even the new airline will be called American ... thanks again things in so much for joining us ... and we come back ... executives at the boy Scouts of America have delayed a vote on whether to end a ban on gays amongst their ranks spare cash were so caught up ... live coverage of President Obama stated Union address that works well for the forty five pm I'm WS J live ... executives at the boy Scouts of America has delayed a vote on whether to end the boy Scouts ban on gays ... deliberations on the issue were so emotional one purchase and cried so divisive ... that the threat display the organization for inside view on the battle over studies future we're joined by Wall Street Journal's Ana Campoy Anzac walls an Eagle Scout ... and ska and the founder of scouts for quality ... and I wanna start with you was still a planned vote was pushed back till may help calm ... with the plans in Modena this and it gets me it was any intent and ... the bank and they came from so many people twenty cents a share ... and they decided that they had to ... do on the same time and time to time including honey any disease ... okay I wanna bring exact Wallace thank you so much for coming and that that that it now ... what we have simple results by the way ... it did in the cornea at Quinnipiac University polls asked ... the public do you favor lifting the ban and ... fifty five percent said yes right it was unjust Cenovus fifty five percent number that were most excited about it the look of the cross that you really get down into the day Do you also saw this it is heaps of why Catholics from board ... sixty percent of people under the age of forty four and sixty two percent of people in the age of thirty ... two will this clearly tells us is like speaking as an Eagle Scout in somebody who grew up in the program ... the question that we really have to be asking today is we want to ... have an institution that reflects the values of America for the last entry ... or institution ... the reflects the values of the America that these young men in fifteen twenty years are going to grow up to leave ... now ... she say you're not gay but wait where is your passion for this particular should come from Woy joined the Cub Scouts another six years old like a lot of kids due to experience the great outdoors to my mom's Jackie and Terry happen to be gay women of but because a lot of folks in Iowa were willing to turn a blind eye ... to the report lists cutting experience Jackie my chore mom ... was actually a den mother a mama grizzly if you well ... know Nassau first in that there's really no conflict in all between ... the no embracing LGBT equality and traditional values of the boy Scouts ... so ... little island ... what is ... I mean this may be fairly basic question but but what is the roadblock near the site ... no effing for most people who were opposed this Paul C it's not about the boy Scouts of all I was the news hour last night talking with Richard land ... of the Southern Baptist Convention in didn't eat you know was trying to ... make this about some conversation about scouting values but as somebody who actually knows the skyline tennis trustworthy ... loyal helpful friendly courteous kind obedient cheerful thrifty brave clean and reverent well I think you click ... on the I see no ... conflict there between what I learned to scout ... and what ... are you experienced is the you know what my parents be a part of the program and I wanna come back to you were speaking of ... of religious groups and ... they are some of the primary sponsors of scouting I think we have a dream about ... well seventy percent or faith based groups that sponsor scouting and a significant portion of those who wanna guess probably forty fifty percent of promised in organizations ... now ... what we're doing the various religious groups fall on this issue ... I'm ... well as I'm the thing is to come out and said ... it won't be making ... any statement said that when a standard issue until they have an intense two weeks ending on the implications ... of ... most of that that that ... that someone was listening to you leave the scene local groups ... to do is add an energy policy ... that the members of the convention and seven at this game and twenty against ... the band ... I so that some of them unchanged ... they said that they wanna re center in nearly two decades ... maybe not all ... it ... had the same thing and it is ... ok and thanks so much for joining us Apple connect you ... it was interesting ... this is really kind of come to head in the past six months ... it appears that one reason is ... corporate pressure Ripert sponsors but ... we found its guts for quality ... in June last year a month later the beest double down said ... you're absolutely not going to be lifting the ban was deftly setback when a scout is cheerful ... so we carried on ... with certain look in dubious Ace corporate donors including ... Intel ups Merck Verizon ... in selling ups of both withdrawn their funding from the boy Scouts until ... it when they decide that they won and the band which actually brings I've been in line with their own corporate giving Paul says most companies in the Fortune five hundred ... ml into an organization that discriminates against people for openly gay ... including Intel and ups so really this wasn't about ... him attacking are targeting the boy Scouts anyway but making sure that the former dollars understood fully ... the boy Scouts were engaging in this activity ... Ackerley we have a petition pending against Verizon ... I can find the minute change that or such a rise in funding ... and we're hoping that with the beest snow punting the ball and this ... that Verizon be willing to pour support until the bow ... ok ... great time ... we have to cut off their thinking is that the much for commenting to every student ... debt ... good luck pages ... thank you for joining us on the New Saab this morning I'm Ralf Winkler ... ay ay ay ay ...